Residency Training Program
in Psychiatry

Advanced Residency Training

Psychosomatic Medicine (Consultation Liaison Psychiatry) Fellowship Training Program

(PG5 and above)

The Department of Psychiatry offers a one-year, ACGME-accredited fellowship in consultation liaison psychiatry, or psychosomatic medicine. The principal training sites are the psychiatric consultation services at Yale New Haven Hospital and the VA Connecticut Healthcare System. Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) is a 700-adult bed tertiary care hospital. It is the primary teaching hospital for Yale University School of Medicine, with a full range of advanced specialized units. The VA Connecticut Healthcare System (VACHS) medical center in West Haven is a 200-bed tertiary care hospital also affiliated with the School of Medicine. The VACHS offers a full range of inpatient, outpatient and rehabilitation care, in medicine, surgery, psychiatry, and neurology.

The principal component of the fellowship is training in inpatient hospital consultation psychiatry at the YNHH and VACHS. Fellows also complete up to 3 elective rotations in a variety of other settings, including outpatient consultation in the primary care, HIV, transplantation, epilepsy, geriatric, women’s health or PTSD clinics, training in cognitive behavioral therapy, liaison with a hospital medical service, or conduct of academic work or research. Fellows participate in regular didactic seminars covering areas of consultation psychiatry, may attend a wide variety of didactic opportunities in the department or medical center, and receive regular supervision from attending staff. Both psychiatric consultation services are active training sites of the Department of Psychiatry for residents in psychiatry and other fields, medical students and other trainees: fellows contribute importantly to the educational mission of the services. Fellows are expected to participate in scholarly work, which may include preparation of review papers or case reports, or participation in the design and conduct of research.

Our program is accredited by the ACGME for fellowship training in Psychosomatic Medicine, and graduates are eligible to sit for the board examination for qualification in this subspecialty.

To apply, please contact:
Paul Desan, MD, PhD
Yale New Haven Hospital
20 York Street CB2039, New Haven
CT 06504
203-785-2618
fax 203-737-2221
paul.desan@yale.edu

Yale is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Women and minority group members are encouraged to apply.

Application information is available here

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